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Ethics and Compliance Training for Employees
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- Reduce legal and compliance risks
- Improve employee decision-making
- Strengthen company culture
- Easy-to-follow online training
Ethics and compliance training for employees is essential for organizations that want to reduce risk, ensure compliance, and build a strong ethical workplace culture. This course provides basic business ethical decision-making strategies and code of conduct information. It functions as a foundational, general ethics course targeted to all employees. This course introduces participants to various ethical decision-making models and then expands to cover common code of conduct topics. The emphasis of this course is to help employees develop solid ethical decision-making skills in the context of learning specific codes of conduct.
Objectives:
• Understand a working definition of business ethics and apply it to everyday situations.
• Know how to approach and solve various kinds of ethical dilemmas using specific ethical tests and problem-solving strategies.
• Understand the purpose, components, and scope of a code of conduct.
• Know the ethical principles for caring for company assets.
• Know the ethical principles for avoiding conflicts of interest.
• Know the ethical principles for handling confidential information and intellectual property.
• Know the ethical principles for dealing with business gifts and hospitality.
• Know the ethical principles for handling electronic communications.
• Know the ethical principles surrounding antitrust and fair completion conflicts.
• Understand the ethical responsibilities and obligations for employees and managers.
• Learn how to report unethical behavior and how to get assistance.
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Course Outline
Part 1: Ethics Fundamentals
● What is a code of conduct?
● Why is a code of conduct important?
● What is ethics?
● What is business ethics?
● Your ethical expectations
● Your professional perspective
● Ethical pillars
● Ethical dilemmas of conscience
● Dilemmas from outside your influence
● Company/organizational values
Part 2: Assets and Conflicts of Interest
● What are company assets?
● Ethical principles for using company assets
● Responsibility principles for using company assets
● Responsibility for physical property
● Responsibility for funds
● Responsibility for intangible property
● Responsibility for company records
● What are conflicts of interest?
● Outside employment conflicts
● Financial conflicts
● Conflicts of time and resources
● Family conflicts
● Personal volunteering/selling conflicts
● Why should you avoid conflicts of interest?
Part 3: Confidential Information & IP and Business Gifts
● What is confidential information?
● What are trade secrets?
● Intellectual property
● How do you know what is confidential?
● Protecting confidential information
● What are business gifts and hospitality?
● What do gifts communicate?
● Reasons for rejecting inappropriate gifts
● Bad intentions
● Six considerations for accepting a gift
Part 4: Technology and Communications
● Company hardware
● Company software
● Company computer networks
● Company network ethical issues
● Responsibility and respect
● Occasional use
Part 5: Antitrust/Fair Competition, Ethical Responsibilities, and Reporting & Assistance
● What are antitrust laws?
● Rationale for having antitrust laws
● Common antitrust behaviors
● Antitrust laws
● Exchanging information with competitors
● Accuracy and honesty in communications
● Your employee responsibilities
● Manager/supervisor responsibilities
● Company responsibilities
● Myths of reporting
● Documentation
● Reporting and assistance
● Retaliation
● Survival tips
